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People strike sparks off each other; that is what I try to note down. But mark well, they only do this when they are talking together. After all, we don't write letters now, we telephone. And one of these days we are going to have TV sets which lonely people can talk to and get answers back. Then no one will read anymore.
— British novelist Henry Green (to Terry Southern, Paris Review interview, 1958)

Feature: Robert Creeley (1926–2005)

Edited by
Michael Kelleher

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Robert Creeley, ‘Wow. I called it and why not:’ 7 letters, 1950–1961, edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.

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Charles Alexander: Robert Creeley: The Speech that Seeks Company (two brief notes)

[»»]Off-site:Robert Creeley: A Home Movie. In 2002, Starcherone Books’ Director Ted Pelton interviewed Robert Creeley at his home in Buffalo, NY. In this 45–minute quick-time movie, edited in imovie, Creeley discusses his collaborative work with various artists, Buffalo’s legacy as a poetry city, and the purposes of poetry. This was first presented as a Starcherone Books-sponsored event at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo, NY, on May 12, 2005:http://www.starcherone.com/creeley2.mov

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Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: A Summation Scheme (About the Illness of John T.) / Black Head

More on Flarf

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Michael Gottlieb: Googling Flarf: “This is a commonplace: it is virtually impossible to look at Van Gogh or Matisse or read Eliot or Williams and grasp how uncompromising — how ugly, brutal, honest — they once seemed. It is our curse, is it not — as artists, to become picturesque? We should live so long.”

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Rick Snyder: The New Pandemonium: A Brief Overview of Flarf: “Such an effort, it is worth noting, doesn’t challenge conventional expectations of what constitutes a poem, but is simply filled with execrable content.”

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David Kennedy: Ken Bolton, «At The Flash & At The Baci» — Four Coffees with Ken Bolton

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Michael Leddy: Homer: «Iliad» 12 CDs and «Odyssey» 10CDs, translated and read by Stanley Lombardo: ‘…I have been reading and teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey in Lombardo’s translations for several years, and I’m delighted by the ways in which listening to these readings allows nuances of the poems to register.’

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Poets Behaving Badly:
Robert Sheppard: «Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court» by Peter Barry:
‘What the Arts Council’s investigating team had failed to achieve in months I accomplished in seconds,’ boasts Osborne of the fateful meeting when the avalanche of resignations was triggered by chairman Jeff Nuttall. ‘They marched out of the room, and I asked the Secretary to be certain to record their resignations in the minutes, for fear they should come to what senses they possessed and march back in again. But they didn’t return. Was ever a victory so inadvertently achieved?’

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Mark Wallace: «Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture» by Joe Amato:‘… That such forums continue to exist in a society often so hostile to them gives Amato at least a degree of optimism on which to conclude a book that spends most of its time detailing a vast industry of unfreedom and the anguish it causes.’